When Borgen met Mad Men

We are delighted to welcome two of the world’s most exciting writers for television to the festival.

Writer for acclaimed television series Mad Men, Lisa Albert’s TV credits include: Murphy Brown, Major Dad, Living Single, Hannah Montana, Mad Men and others. She has won three Emmy awards, four Writers Guild awards and a Peabody for her work on Mad Men. Mad Men has had five successful seasons and is hugely popular with critics and audiences alike.

Jeppe Gjervig Gram writes for Borgen, the Danish political drama which has been a hit both in his native Denmark and abroad. It has won several prestigious television awards, amongst them the Prix Italia and the FIPA d’OR.